{"id":82851,"date":"2025-08-20T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82851\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:33:09","slug":"u-s-open-mixed-doubles-live-updates-semifinals-and-final-start-time-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82851\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open mixed doubles live updates: Semifinals and final start time, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you likely saw yesterday, ESPN is taking a different approach to cover this new-look mixed doubles tournament, including interviews with contestants in between sets during matches. <\/p>\n<p>Here is what our senior sports media writer Richard Deitsch had to say earlier this week about ESPN\u2019s new approach:<\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0f \u201cHere is the reality from the broadcaster perspective: this is a television show\u2026with a $1 million prize for the winning team and all the makings of great television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLinda Schulz, an ESPN vice president of production, and Brett Jackson, a coordinating producer, are the production point people for the company\u2019s coverage of tennis. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is meeting this new format with changes of its own, including end-of-set interviews with the stars to take the temperature of each match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interviews, conducted by 2017 U.S. Open women\u2019s singles champion Sloane Stephens and former men\u2019s world No. 11 Sam Querrey, will only take place during the mixed doubles event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LiveBlogs_GoFurtherLabel__crP9X\">GO FURTHER<\/p>\n<p class=\"LiveBlogs_GoFurtherText__kkQ2L\">ESPN embraces U.S. Open mixed doubles with interviews between sets and new technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As you likely saw yesterday, ESPN is taking a different approach to cover this new-look mixed doubles tournament,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-82851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}